Outraged scientists stormed out of a government-sponsored climate change conference dinner in Canberra last night, after the strippers booked as entertainment left them all hot and bothered.

One attendee said many of those who walked out of the dinner at Old Parliament House were women.

"I honestly could not believe my eyes when a woman covered in balloons started prancing around as delirious male scientists popped them with a pin," the person, who asked to remain anonymous, said in an email to smh.com.au.

"This was followed by a series of women on stage dressed in almost nothing making jokes about being ridden."

Jokes about being ridden? Um.

This sounds way more interesting than most of the keynote speakers I've seen at the conferences I've been to, though I'm not quite sure what the hell they were going for.

I wonder if they even tied in global warming with the routine.

The woman who starred in the balloon-popping show wearing fish-nets, hotpants, a bustier and a bra was Rebecca Gale, a psychology undergraduate at ANU.